Lot 1752
Sale 131 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
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Description
Attica, Islands off, Aegina (Aigina), (c.525-500 B.C.), silver stater (12.10 g), obv. sea turtle, head in profile, with thick or heavy collar with distinctive die crack across top of turtle, rev. incuse square with mill-sail pattern, (S.1851, Meadows, Aegina, Group IIb, Milbank pl I, 11, Asyut Group IIb, No.433-4, SNG Delepierre 1565 [same dies with same die crack on obverse], HGC 6, 429, cf.SNG Fitz. 3249, SNG Lockett 1952, cf.Dewing 1657, cf.Rosen 216). Good very fine, minor surface roughness.
Ex Athena Fund Sale, Sotheby Auctions, New York, 9th December 1993 (lot 392 part).
- Estimate
- $1,000
- Result Status
- Passed in